Some observations on the duodenum, or second stomach ... / extracted from the Gulstonian Lectures ... May 1817.
- Grant David Yeats
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations on the duodenum, or second stomach ... / extracted from the Gulstonian Lectures ... May 1817. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I TRANSACTIONS. 31 / to find that the plan he states to be useful was “ to keep the body rather loose,” which corresponds with what experience has taught me to be most advantageous, viz. to keep the in¬ testines gradually and mildly excited as I have frequently inculcated. It is not uncommon to consider such a condition as indicating a primary dis¬ ease of the liver, and if as is some¬ times the case a swelling about the ankles should occur, it is regarded as a confirmation of the opinion which has been adopted. I believe this state to arise from a want of healthy action or from a total in¬ activity of the duodenum. Under such circumstances the gene¬ ra] practice of giving a dose or two of calomel with purgative salts, and sub¬ sequently stimulants and tonics pro¬ duce no permanent good effects, for the duodenum relapses into its inactivity after a brisk purge; I have particularly remarked this of calomel, and all the symptoms](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31945430_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
